TRAPMAT SAVIOR & NICHOLAS CRAVEN – Scottie Trippin
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TRAPMAT SAVIOR & NICHOLAS CRAVEN – Scottie Trippin

Nicholas Craven may collaborate with Boldy James, Tha God Fahim, Mach-Hommy, Billy Woods, and even France's Akhenaton, but he hasn't forgotten his roots. For the second time, the Canadian producer teams up with Montreal-based Haitian rapper Trapmat Savior. And to complement the latter's haunting voice and understated humor, he delivers one of his finest works.
GORILLA GLUE & LIL NAKUR – Russian Trap House
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GORILLA GLUE & LIL NAKUR – Russian Trap House

Long live globalization. It makes this kind of glorious absurdity possible. Trap-A-Holics-style trap music, complete with all the sounds and imagery that come with it, but cooked up by real muzhiks, by backwoods hicks from deep rural Russia rapping about saunas, and eating pancakes. And what's more, their music actually works, as if this style of rap had truly been born over there.
CESCHI – Bring Us The Head Of Francisco False (Part 1) 
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CESCHI – Bring Us The Head Of Francisco False (Part 1) 

With the two-part "Bring Us The Head Of Francisco False," Ceschi bids us farewell, bringing to a close a solo career that began nearly twenty years earlier. He does so as he always has: exploring disillusionment, with confessions that verge on the unbearable, but also with an unrivalled ability to transcend eras and musical genres, and to deliver one inspiring track after another.
DRAKE – Nothing Was The Same
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DRAKE – Nothing Was The Same

"Nothing Was The Same" is meant to be Drake’s rap album - the one where he invokes the Wu-Tang Clan. The one where, in between bouts of whining about his exes, he sounds at his most combative. But it is also, and above all, his weirdest, strangest and most experimental record: astonishingly shapeless and melody-light for something this mainstream. And, just maybe, his best.